Neoreta Warren, 1897

Song, Wenhui, Xue, Dayong & Han, Hongxiang, 2012, Revision of Chinese Oretinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae), Zootaxa 3445, pp. 1-36 : 30

Neoreta Warren, 1897

Neoreta Warren, 1897 , Novit. zool., 4: 378. Type species: Oreta olga Swinhoe, 1894 , by original designation. India: Shillong, Khasi Hills. stat. rev.

Cyclura Warren, 1897 , Novit. zool., 4: 14. Type species: Cyclura excisa Warren, 1897 , by monotypy. Indonesia: Borneo. (A junior homonym of Cyclura Harlan, 1825 (Reptilia))

Amphitorna Turner, 1911 , Ann. Qd. Mus., 10: 95. Type species: Amphitorna lechriodes Turner, 1926 , by monotypy. Australia: Karanda Old. syn. nov.

Tomocerota Matsumuta, 1921 , Thousand Insects Japan (Addit.), 4: 946. Type species: Tomocerota formosana Matsumura, 1921 , by monotypy. China: Formosa ( Taiwan).

Procampsis Warren, 1923 , in Seitz, Macrolepid. World, 10: 488. Type species: Procampsis trogoptera Warren, 1923 , by monotypy. Indonesia: Mt. Goliath.

Diagnosis. Most species of the genus Neoreta can be recognized easily by the distinctive wing pattern: the antemedial and postmedial lines are parallel, and the latter is angled near the costa; the hind wing has a distinct postmedial line, and its outer margin is excavated and forms a hook medially. The forewing usually has a pale discocellular spot. In the male genitalia, the uncus is nearly obsolete, the socii are expanded like petals; the median process of the gnathos has a pair of diagnostically hooked processes; the anellus has a pair of developed and pointed processes; the valva is narrow, expanded and rounded terminally, sometimes spine-like; the saccus is sometimes concave. The sternite 8 usually has one pair of triangular processes at the middle of the posterior margin. The female genitalia have a bilobed signum in the corpus bursae.

Distribution. China, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea.

Remarks. The name Cyclura is regarded as a valid generic name in Watson (1967) and Chu & Wang (1985, 1987, 1991). Fletcher (1979) indicated that it is a junior homonym of Cyclura Harlan, 1825 (Reptilia) . Holloway (1998) used Amphitorna to be the replacement name of Cyclura and listed Neoreta , Procampsis and Tomocerota as synonyms, without explaining why not use Neoreta as the replacement name of Cyclura . However, Neoreta Warren, 1897 is a valid senior name and should be the adopted name of this genus. The following species are included in this genus: Neoreta olga ( Swinhoe, 1894) , N. perexcisa Warren, 1923 , N. purpureofascia ( Wileman, 1911) , N. submontana Holloway, 1976 , N. excisa ( Warren, 1897) comb. nov., N. albipuncta ( Hampson, 1893) comb. nov., N. castanea (Hampson, 1891) comb. nov., N. lechriodes (Turner, 1926) comb. nov., N. trogoptera (Rothschild, 1915) comb. nov., N. confusata (Warren, 1899) comb. nov., N. brunhyala ( Shen & Chen, 1990) comb. nov.